From expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment. She and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. Here to tell her story is Richard Norton smith. You know him, hes one of our academic advisors for the whole project. Hes helped launch a number of president ial libraries among them the gerald r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. Sure. I try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fortunate to become a good friends of both of the fords. We want to start tonight where we left off which is in august of 1974 when the fords learned they were going to be in the
Only insight we have of the evolution at a sustained level during the entire period of the revolution. It is significant. She was an exemplary person. She tells us about womens lives and what it was like to be not just the first lady, but to be a wife and a mother and a sister and a daughter. What would you say . The thing i always think about with abigail is the relationship, the partnership. Without an abigail, there is no john, and without a john, there is no abigail. The reason she is important is because of the relationship . Right. Without the support she provided, she was so trustworthy. He could go off and be this great public person. To our guests, c. James taylor and edith gelles, thank you for allowing us to understand the life and legacy of first lady abigail adams. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] this monday, two exclusive interviews. Roslyn carters were worth on theal health issues
The specific reasons for these trends will be explained in slides to follow. Regarding the Affordable Care act, all provisions that have become effective since enactment in 2010 are included in our Health Spending estimates because they are reflected in our data that measure total revenues. While our Historical Data cannot parse out the spending that wpj directly the result of the a. C. A. , the projections model show there was minimal impact from the Affordable Care act on aggravate National Health through 2012. Within specific services and payers, we can identify some of the provisions that affected spending for those sectors. However, even within the specific sectors, the impacts were very small and in some sectors, the impacts were offsetting. For example, for private Health Insurance, programs that expanded coverage added to spending while the minimum medical loss ratio had a slight reducing effect. For medicare, a notable fact on spending was from reductions to medicare Payment U
Concern as well as the popular press concern, then suddenly this idea of somebody listening to god and having his followers do things that seem to be aberrant to national norms, thats dangerous, and that needs to be policed and controlled. Wesleyan University Religion professor Peter Gottschalk argues that religious persecution in america has been prevalent since the mid1800s, even committed by the very government that is supposed to protect us from persecution. Sunday night at 9 00, part of book tv this weekend on cspan2. We sat down for a conversation with steve ford. He shared his thoughts about his mothers influence, and the intervention that lead to a recovery program. We spoke to him last year in austin, texas. We are with steve ford. Son of betty and gerald ford. Your mother is one of the she is in our trailer. Shes one of the inspirations and actually you turn around and she is our artwork for the series. She represents somebody who had influence and image. As a mother, talk to
It could go quite a bad direction. Theould be a shame if resulting exposure of the u. S. Abusing its allowing other states to start abusing newfound powers of the internet. I think that is the opposite direction we want, but it isnt a given yet. A large degree of what happens next depends on the u. S. Response. I think we are out of time. Lets give a hand to our panelists. [applause] they will be signing books in the next room over here, and thanks, everybody, for coming. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up tonight, remembering former first Lady Rosalynn carter. It begins at nine eastern. We focus on the issues you expect in the tech industry. We want to make sure that innovation is a National Strategy. E dominate in so many areas it is a Global Global phenomenon. The u. S. Is the world leader, and we want to keep it that way which requires great immigration policies. It requires additional spectrum.